On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:26, C Falconer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:45, Nick Rout wrote: > > you can use mount -t smbfs for a samba share on a remote computer. > > Therefore you can also use it in /etc/fstab > > Just an observation... if you're mounting shares between linux/unix > machines, use NFS. SMB is a pig of a protocol with much overhead. > > When I changed from smbfs to nfs for my security camera the speed > improved by about 25%. I did some testing, comparing http/ftp/ and cp > (from a NFS and a SMB share) and from memory smb was a distant last in > performance with the same file and the same hardware.
I thought smb was the only one that worked on a Windows/ Linux setup?
